Thread: Chinese database name in URL, can I ?

I'm interesting in PostgreSQL these days, I created a database whose name
contains Chinese characters, when I try to connect this database, I got an
error: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: database "??pg???" does not
exist

I'm using PostgreSQL 8.2.5 on Windows XP SP2 Simplified Chinese system, and
using postgresql-8.2-506.jdbc4.jar as the jdbc driver.

Here is my test Java program:
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<%@page pageEncoding="gbk" contentType="text/html" session="false"
import="java.sql.*,java.util.*"%>
<h1>Chinese DatabaseName Test | 中文数据库名测试</h1>
<%
String jdbcDriverName = "org.postgresql.Driver";
String
jdbcURL="jdbc:postgresql://localhost/中文pg数据库?user=root&password=123456";
String jdbcUserName = "root";
String jdbcPassword = "123456";

Connection con = null;
Statement stmt = null;
ResultSet rs = null;
try {
    Class.forName (jdbcDriverName);
    con = DriverManager.getConnection (jdbcURL, jdbcUserName, jdbcPassword);
    stmt = con.createStatement ();
    rs = stmt.executeQuery("select version()");
    ResultSetMetaData rsmd = rs.getMetaData ();

    while (rs.next())
    {
        out.println (rs.getString(1));
    }
    rs.close();
    stmt.close();
    con.close ();
}catch (Exception e) {
    out.println (e);
}
%>
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and the database environment:
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C:\>psql -U root postgres
Welcome to psql 8.2.5, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
       \h for help with SQL commands
       \? for help with psql commands
       \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
       \q to quit

postgres=# \l
            数据库列表
     名字     | 所有者 |   编码
--------------+--------+-----------
 cntestdb     | root   | EUC_CN
 postgres     | root   | SQL_ASCII
 template0    | root   | SQL_ASCII
 template1    | root   | SQL_ASCII
 中文pg_utf8  | root   | UTF8
 中文pg数据库 | root   | EUC_CN
(6 rows)

postgres=# \c 中文pg数据库;
You are now connected to database "中文pg数据库".
中文pg数据库=# \dt;
               关系列表
  模式  |     名字     | 类型 | 所有者
--------+--------------+------+--------
 public | serverregion | 表   | root
 public | servers      | 表   | root
 public | 中文表       | 表   | root
(3 rows)

中文pg数据库=# select * from 中文表;
 字段1 |   字段2
-------+------------
     1 | hello 你好
     2 | pg数据库
     3 | 用jdbc访问
     4 | 中文数据库
     5 | 可以吗？
(5 rows)

中文pg数据库=#
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I've also tried add '&charSet=GBK' in the jdbcURL, and got the same result.

I know that MySQL can support Chinese database name in jdbc URL, so how can
I use Chinese database name in jdbc URL to connect PostgreSQL?

Thanks!

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=?UTF-8?Q?LiuYan_=E5=88=98=E7=A0=94?= <lovetide@21cn.com> writes:
> I've also tried add '&charSet=GBK' in the jdbcURL, and got the same result.

At a guess, the name of the database will have to be in UTF8.  I doubt
that JDBC will think it should do any character set conversion on it.

            regards, tom lane

Tom Lane wrote:
> =?UTF-8?Q?LiuYan_=E5=88=98=E7=A0=94?= <lovetide@21cn.com> writes:
>> I've also tried add '&charSet=GBK' in the jdbcURL, and got the same result.
>
> At a guess, the name of the database will have to be in UTF8.  I doubt
> that JDBC will think it should do any character set conversion on it.

IIRC the last time I raised the issue of the encoding used for things
like database names & usernames in the startup packet the answer boiled
down to "don't use anything but 7-bit ASCII". So the driver sends those
strings as 7-bit ASCII (i.e. String.getBytes("US-ASCII")). If you've got
a database name or username that can't be represented using only 7-bit
ASCII, you're out of luck.

Has something changed here so that non-7-bit data in the startup packet
will work?

-O

Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> At a guess, the name of the database will have to be in UTF8.  I doubt
>> that JDBC will think it should do any character set conversion on it.

> Has something changed here so that non-7-bit data in the startup packet
> will work?

The server just thinks those are 8-bit strings.  I guess my
recommendation is that you should go ahead and send UTF8, and if the
user created the non-ASCII name that way, it'll work.  (In practice I
think that means he'd have to issue the CREATE DATABASE or CREATE USER
command while logged into a database that uses UTF8 encoding.)

This whole business of per-database encodings is a mess, of course.

            regards, tom lane

Thanks for your reply Oliver & Tom,

You are right. I downloaded the source code of postgresql-jdbc-8.2-506, and
found that org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.java using the hard
coded "US-ASCII" to transform the encoding of jdbc parameter names and
values. So, a GBK encoded Chinese character(2 bytes) will be transformed to
a hex value 0x3F, which is a '?' character.

I tried to add a URL parameter "jdbcURLEncoding" in
org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.java to resolve this problem,
and it seems works ok for me now(Chinese database name/username /password in
the jdbc URL) for this testing purpose. But there are too many "US-ASCII"s
in the source codes (from database name/username/password to MD5Digest,
UnixCrypt, Encoding etc...), so there must be some other things to be
concerned which I don't know where/how to do it.

The attachments are the two file which I modified:
org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.java
org.postgresql.util.MD5Digest.java

The following is the new test code:
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import java.sql.*;

public class PgTest
{
    public static void main (String[] args) throws Exception
    {
        // 中文pg数据库: \u4e2d\u6587pg\u6570\u636e\u5e93
        // chineseusername中文用户名: chineseusername\u4e2d\u6587\u7528\u6237\u540d
        // chinesepassword中文密码: chinesepassword\u4e2d\u6587\u5bc6\u7801

        String jdbcDriverName = "org.postgresql.Driver";
        String jdbcURL

="jdbc:postgresql://192.168.1.6/\u4e2d\u6587pg\u6570\u636e\u5e93?user=chineseusername\u4e2d\u6587\u7528\u6237\u540d&password=chinesepassword\u4e2d\u6587\u5bc6\u780d&jdbcURLEncoding=GBK";

        Connection con = null;
        Statement stmt = null;
        ResultSet rs = null;
        try {
                Class.forName (jdbcDriverName);
                con = DriverManager.getConnection (jdbcURL);
                stmt = con.createStatement ();
                rs = stmt.executeQuery("select version()");
                ResultSetMetaData rsmd = rs.getMetaData ();

                while (rs.next())
                {
                        System.out.println (rs.getString(1));
                }
                rs.close();
                stmt.close();
                con.close ();
        }catch (Exception e) {
                System.out.println (e);
        }


    }
}
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and the following is the DEBUG output produced by modified postgresql jdbc
driver.
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F:\Software\Development\PostgreSQL\psqlJDBC\postgresql-jdbc-8.2-506.src>java
-classpath .;jars\postgresql.jar PgTest
21:35:44.937 (1) PostgreSQL 8.2 JDBC4 with SSL (build 506)
21:35:44.968 (1) Trying to establish a protocol version 3 connection to
192.168.1.6:5432
21:35:45.000 (1)  FE=> StartupPacket(user=chineseusername中文用户名,
database=中文pg数据库, client_encoding=UNICODE, DateStyle=ISO)
21:35:45.015 (1) Using GBK charset encoding to encode parameters
21:35:45.031 (1) encodedParams hex dump:
21:35:45.031 (1)   user-->75 73 65 72
21:35:45.031 (1)   chineseusername中文用户名-->63 68 69 6e 65 73 65 75 73 65 72
6e 61 6d 65 d6 d0 ce c4 d3 c3 bb a7 c3 fb
21:35:45.031 (1)   database-->64 61 74 61 62 61 73 65
21:35:45.046 (1)   中文pg数据库-->d6 d0 ce c4 70 67 ca fd be dd bf e2
21:35:45.046 (1)   client_encoding-->63 6c 69 65 6e 74 5f 65 6e 63 6f 64 69
6e 67
21:35:45.046 (1)   UNICODE-->55 4e 49 43 4f 44 45
21:35:45.046 (1)   DateStyle-->44 61 74 65 53 74 79 6c 65
21:35:45.046 (1)   ISO-->49 53 4f
21:35:46.031 (1)  <=BE AuthenticationOk
21:35:46.046 (1)  <=BE ParameterStatus(client_encoding = UNICODE)
21:35:46.046 (1)  <=BE ParameterStatus(DateStyle = ISO, YMD)
21:35:46.046 (1)  <=BE ParameterStatus(integer_datetimes = off)
21:35:46.062 (1)  <=BE ParameterStatus(is_superuser = off)
21:35:46.062 (1)  <=BE ParameterStatus(server_encoding = EUC_CN)
21:35:46.062 (1)  <=BE ParameterStatus(server_version = 8.2.5)
21:35:46.062 (1)  <=BE ParameterStatus(session_authorization =
chineseusername中文用户名)
21:35:46.062 (1)  <=BE ParameterStatus(standard_conforming_strings = off)
21:35:46.062 (1)  <=BE ParameterStatus(TimeZone = Asia/Hong_Kong)
21:35:46.062 (1)  <=BE BackendKeyData(pid=3360,ckey=2007175982)
21:35:46.062 (1)  <=BE ReadyForQuery(I)
21:35:46.078 (1)     compatible = 8.2
21:35:46.078 (1)     loglevel = 2
21:35:46.078 (1)     prepare threshold = 5
getConnection returning
driver[className=org.postgresql.Driver,org.postgresql.Driver@1bf73fa]
21:35:46.140 (1) simple execute,
handler=org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement$StatementResultHandler@f3d6a5,
maxR
ows=0, fetchSize=0, flags=17
21:35:46.140 (1)  FE=> Parse(stmt=null,query="select version()",oids={})
21:35:46.140 (1)  FE=> Bind(stmt=null,portal=null)
21:35:46.140 (1)  FE=> Describe(portal=null)
21:35:46.156 (1)  FE=> Execute(portal=null,limit=0)
21:35:46.156 (1)  FE=> Sync
21:35:46.281 (1)  <=BE ParseComplete [null]
21:35:46.281 (1)  <=BE BindComplete [null]
21:35:46.281 (1)  <=BE RowDescription(1)
21:35:46.281 (1)  <=BE DataRow
21:35:46.281 (1)  <=BE CommandStatus(SELECT)
21:35:46.296 (1)  <=BE ReadyForQuery(I)
PostgreSQL 8.2.5 on i686-pc-mingw32, compiled by GCC gcc.exe (GCC) 3.4.2
(mingw-special)
21:35:46.312 (1)  FE=> Terminate
--------------------------------------------


Oliver Jowett wrote:
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> =?UTF-8?Q?LiuYan_=E5=88=98=E7=A0=94?= <lovetide@21cn.com> writes:
>>> I've also tried add '&charSet=GBK' in the jdbcURL, and got the same
>>> result.
>>
>> At a guess, the name of the database will have to be in UTF8.  I doubt
>> that JDBC will think it should do any character set conversion on it.
>
> IIRC the last time I raised the issue of the encoding used for things
> like database names & usernames in the startup packet the answer boiled
> down to "don't use anything but 7-bit ASCII". So the driver sends those
> strings as 7-bit ASCII (i.e. String.getBytes("US-ASCII")). If you've got
> a database name or username that can't be represented using only 7-bit
> ASCII, you're out of luck.
>
> Has something changed here so that non-7-bit data in the startup packet
> will work?
>
> -O
>
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